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Camus

[ ka-my; English ka-moo ]

noun

  1. · [a, l-, ber], 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.


Camus

/ kamy /

noun

  1. CamusAlbert19131960MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: essayist Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels ÉٰԲ (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957.
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Risen likens the dormant durability of such national hysteria to the illness described by Albert Camus in his 1947 novel “The Plague.”

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Corbet likens the moment to Albert Camus’ novel “The Stranger” when a character explains all the factors that went into the moment when he killed someone in cold blood.

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He became a newspaper columnist and won international acclaim in 2015 for his first novel The Meursault Investigation, which was a reworking of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

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“Everyone who came into that house of horrors knew that others had come before him and others would follow,” Mr Camus said.

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"The great replacement is very simple," French conspiracy theorist Renaud Camus, who coined the term, has said.

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